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  • I Want To Share A Story From Reader's Digest, ...

    Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 23, 2007
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    I want to share a story from Reader’s Digest, December 2002, which was taken from a story by Lee Hill Kavanaugh, of the Kansas City Star. It goes like this: Perry Bice turned off the engine but remained behind the wheel. Parked in his driveway was a wheelchair-accessible van, a huge red and gold ...read more

  • Thankfulness Or Forgetfulness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2002
    based on 16 ratings
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    THANKFULNESS OR FORGETFULNESS "History knows no disasters," said the Literary Digest (Sept. 1923), "which parallels the earthquake and fire that visited Japan this month and laid waste the capital city and the chief seaport." The New York Tribune called this earthquake “undoubtedly the greatest ...read more

  • The Lord's Supper With Grandma

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Oct 13, 2010
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    In 1999 the church I was serving designated a particular Sunday morning service for celebrating the lives of our shut-ins. Every effort was made to get them to the church that day. We highly encouraged their family to make arrangements but had volunteers step up where that didn’t work. After the ...read more

  • Jim Rhodes: God's Complainer  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
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    Jim Rhodes: God’s Complainer Driving through Mineral Wells, Texas, one afternoon in 1994, Jim Rhodes noticed many buildings standing vacant due to the shutdown of a local military base. "I always complain to God about things that bother me," says Rhodes, "so I asked him, ’Why aren’t these buildings ...read more

  • The Ranger Creed

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2011
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    THE RANGER CREED Recognizing that I volunteered as a Ranger, fully knowing the hazards of my chosen profession, I will always endeavor to uphold the prestige, honor, and high esprit de corps of my Ranger Regiment. Acknowledging the fact that a Ranger is a more elite soldier who arrives at the ...read more

  • Victor Hugo, Who Is Famous For His Novel The ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jul 24, 2006
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    Victor Hugo, who is famous for his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, also so wrote a story called “Ninety-Three.” It tells of a ship caught in a dangerous storm on the high seas. At the height of the storm, the frightened sailors heard a terrible crashing noise below the deck. They knew at once ...read more

  • Moody's Servant's Heart  PRO

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
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    MOODY'S SERVANT'S HEART A large group of European pastors came to one of D. L. Moody’s Northfield Bible Conferences in Massachusetts in the late 1800s. Following the European custom of the time, each guest put his shoes outside his room to be cleaned by the hall servants overnight. But of course ...read more

  • Buried Treasure

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 25, 2011
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    BURIED TREASURE In 1992 volunteers from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, excavating in Caesarea dug up 99 gold coins that had been stashed in a makeshift safe beneath the floor of what was once a private dwelling. Caesarea is considered one of Israel’s richest archaeological sites in that ...read more

  • The Lost (And Found) Baptistery

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 21, 2011
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    THE LOST (AND FOUND) BAPTISTERY Supposedly, it was constructed around 1828; sometime between then and about 1930 it was forgotten and unused till discovered in May of 2002. No one knows for certain when the open air baptistery of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Fort Gaines, Georgia, was last used. ...read more

  • James Bradley, Who Wrote "Flags Of Our Fathers," ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    James Bradley, who wrote "Flags of Our Fathers," described America as it responded to the necessary sacrifices that World War II brought the nation. In fact, it ushered her into a greatness that caused that generation to be defined as "The Greatest Generation." He wrote: "During World War II, the ...read more

  • Liberals Give Less Than ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2009
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    LIBERALS GIVE LESS THAN CONSERVATIVES A couple years ago, a Syracuse University professor named Arthur C. Brooks wrote a book called "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism". He was not particularly excited about the outcome of the study he’d done (he’d been raised ...read more

  • I Heard The Story Of The Minister Who Was Leading ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lynn Malone on Sep 12, 2005
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    I heard the story of the minister who was leading a building campaign in his church and need to raise some additional funds. Sound familiar? One day, the minister was checking the store room (we know this isn’t a story about Benton United Methodist Church because there ain’t no store room!), and ...read more

  • Living On The Mountain  PRO

    Contributed by Darren Ethier on Mar 22, 2002
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    LIVING ON THE MOUNTAIN Listen to one man’s remarkable discovery at Smokey Mountain near the Philippine capital of Manila: "A gigantic man-made mound, perhaps 100 feet high, ran on before us for a mile or more. Wisps of smoke rose from fissures all over the sides and top of this municipal dump and ...read more

  • Seeing You For Real

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2011
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    SEEING YOU FOR REAL Just a few years ago, Leadership Journal did an interview with Saul Cruz, who along with his wife founded Armonia (Harmony) Ministries in Mexico City. They minister to hundreds of poor people all over Mexico today, but they began their ministry by planting a church on the edge ...read more

  • Arthur And Skinner Were High School Buddies. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 3, 2008
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    Arthur and Skinner were high school buddies. They grew up together in Mount Carmel, PA. They joined the army together. They rode the same troopship to the Philippines. That’s where they were separated. Skinner was on Bataan when it fell to the Japanese in 1942. Arthur was captured a month ...read more

  • When I Was In Kalkaska Mi, Working As A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bob Soulliere on Mar 10, 2006
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    When I was in Kalkaska Mi, working as a volunteer fireman, we once went to help someone who had fallen through the ice. When we got there he had already been rescued by some bystanders. What happened was he wandered to far out on unsafe ice, not knowing that there was an underground spring feeding ...read more

  • Your God Is Too ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
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    YOUR GOD IS TOO SAFE The words that Mark Buchanan wrote of his own experience in his book entitled "Your God Is Too Safe." He wrote that when he was saved, "I hit the ground running. Immediately, I volunteered for everything, anything, that I felt vaguely interested in and marginally qualified ...read more

  • D.l. Moody And The Shoes  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 25, 2011
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    D.L. MOODY AND THE SHOES A large group of European pastors came to one of D. L. Moody’s Northfield Bible Conferences in Massachusetts in the late 1800s. Following the European custom of the time, each guest put his shoes outside his room to be cleaned by the hall servants overnight. But of course ...read more

  • "Example Of Ministry Team Work

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Aug 25, 2018
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    It is a story about the friends of Herman Ostry, who lived near Bruno, Nebraska, and what did for him. From what I was told, a number of years ago Herman purchased a piece of property and put up a barn. Thins went well until the nearby creek flooded and put the floor of Herman’s new barn under 29 ...read more

  • Let God Do The Watering!" Mark 4: 1-20: Key ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Aug 4, 2004
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    “Let God Do the Watering!” Mark 4: 1-20: Key verse(s): 11-12 “He told them, ‘The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that “‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and every hearing but never understanding; ...read more